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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
VOL. XXIV
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., SEPTEMBER 26, 1902
NO. 38
THE/IYSTERY- of-T/ie
?ic i , H'm,
Florence Warden, ...
r '/Nufhor of-"The Mouse on fe Adrah," ere j
ICopjrlght, teaM- Jby gobert Bonner'a Sons.:
CHAPTER XIX. 1
__. Continued. s-^
"Sc. you've been a-visitlug, have
you, sir?" Bhe said, in a deep, gruff
whlsper, glancing op at the gloomy
windows of Shingle End. "Aye, they
want a few lively folk to come and
Bee 'em and cheer 'em up, for sure!"
And she gave him a series of nods
and shakes of the head, all of which
were meant to carry weighty mean?
ing.
"Well, this isn't Ihe best place in the
world for people who are fond of
'company,' is it V* said Clifford. "I
dare say you feel lonely yourself
sometimes, don't you?"
"Well, I get sonic I don't expect
sometimes, sir," she answered, with
mystery. "Two nights ago, now, I
had a young lady in 'ere?a young
lady you may know, sir. who was very
much talked about last year, poor
dear?"
Clifford's sudden start Into vivid in?
terest made her break off and look at
him attentively. She smiled know?
ingly.
"Maybe yoji know who I mean,slr?w
"Miss Claris:" asked he, with as
much apparent Indifference as he
could.
"Aye. sir. She was in my cottage
over an hour, and sorry enough I felt
for her, I must say, whatever people
think."
And the old woman, who probably
knew more than she affected to do
about Clifford and his feeling towa"d
Miss Claris, gave a sigh, and again
found relief iu her feelings in a shake
of the head.
"Where is she now? Do you know?"
asked Clifford, no longer disguising
Ms interest. "If lt's n secret," he
went on. as tho old lady said nothing.
"I think you will not do wrong In con?
fiding lt to me. ns 1 wish her all the
good In the world."
"It's well there's some as do, sir,"
paid she. with n suddenly lowered
voice. "And I doo't know as I'm do?
ing harm In telling you she is staying
at Courtstairs, up Paradise Hill,
No. 45. And you can tell her if you
see her as I wouldn't have told no;
body but you."
Clifford was overwhelmed with joy
at this unexpected piece of good for?
tune, and he promised at once to give
her message.
"By the bye," he said, just as he
was about to start off in the direction
of Courtstnirs. "are you at liberty to
tell me what she was doing here? Was
she visiting the Bostals?"
"You mustn't ase me any more,"
she said. "There's things one mustn't
so much as guess at," she added,
enigmatically, as she retreated to her
own doorway.
Clifford did not trouble his head
about these hints. It was enough for
him that Nell was now withiu his
reach. And he set off for Courtstairs
with a set purpose in his mind.
The walk along the straight marsh
road, with the wind in his face, and
the sea a misty blue line on his right
hand, seemed never-ending. Clifford
had no eyes for the effect of sunset
on Hie chalk cliff to his right, for the
picturesque little farm perched up
high above the water*! edge, as he
drew near to Beach Bay.
Past the Shooter's Arms, the way?
side inn which happily forms thc limit
of the explorations of the devasta?
ting hordes from the East End of
Loudon with which benevolent rail?
way companies have ruined one of the
pleasantest spots in England. Past
the tiny village of Beach, with Its pic?
turesque, steep miniature street, and
its hideous Convalescent Home and
waste of brand-new tea-garden. Up
on the Beach road, lo full sight of the
lea and of the Oohing fleet coming in
upon the breast of the tide. Clifford
saw nothing, thought of nothing but
how to save a yan', a caloote, so that
he might lose no .hue in reaching his
darling.
Ile had to Inquire for Paradise Hill,
Which proved to be one of the iununi
tiahle back streets of mean houses of
which thc- tpwn cl iefly consists. He
foiled Xo. 46 easily enough. It was
oue of a row of small, yellow brick
houses, with bay-windows on the
ground Moor, whick would formerly
have been called cottages, but which,
since the School Board brought in
pretension, have become "villas."
Cyfford's heart sink a little as he
asked for "Miss Claris." This stuffy
little dwelling, after the fresh air of
the rambling inn ly the shore, must
be a torture to the girl.
The woman who opened the door
looked at him sulkily.
"Til see if she's in." she said, as If
Hie proffered service was a great con
ilcs/iension.
Ami theo she disappeared into the
front room. When she came out
nguiu she waa followed by Nell her?
self.
Oi- was it Nell? This thin-faced,
white girl, with the dull, frightened
eyes? For the hist moment Clifford
wai hardly sure.
But she started violently, and the
expression of her face changed. The
look of alarm gave place to one of
such joy, such- comfort nnd radiant
delight that Clifford was too much
moved to speak.
They both stood silent until the!
1 woman had reluctantly disappeared
' Into the back room of the house. Then
Nell went Into the front room, invit?
ing him, still without a word, to fol?
low her.
He did so, shut the door, and seized
her in lils arms. He could scarcely
see her face for the mist before his
eyes.
"I didn't know you, Xell."
"Didn't you? Ah, well, it doesn't
matter."
She spoke hopelessly, her first lm
I pulse of joy at the sight of him seein
Inc to have died within her already.
"No, of course it doesn't matter, for
; I mean you to look your own self
j again Immediately. Do you know why
I have come here, Nell?"
She was silent.
"I have come to marry you."
Nell shook her head, but she drew a
long sigh of satisfaction.
"I like to hear you say so. It ls good
of you," she said, in a gentle, timid
voice, "although lt ls Impossible."
"Why?"
"Oh, you don't want me to go over
tly* old ground again. Can't you be
satisfied that it is impossible?"
. "Xo. I can't, unfortunately. My
darling, you can't hold out any longer.
It was dignified to refuse before; uow
it would only be foolish. Who is go?
ing to take care of you now, Nell, if
you won't have me?"
But he had touched a tender spot,
and she began to cry softly.
"Poor uncle!" sobbed she. "It near?
ly broke my heart when he did not
know even me. And then when they
took him away-"
"Was he harmless?" asked Clifford,
interrupting.
"Yes; he was quite harmless, and
would let me raauage him always.
And the police came and?and took
him away."
"The police? Do you mean that?"
"Yes,_flipy have haunted us Doth
ever since we left the Blue Lion,"
whispered she, earnestly. "Aur\ I
know they aro trying to find out th&
mystery ?you know what ?through
him. Isn't it dreadful!"
Clifford did not answer nt once. It
seemed to him that the chances of his
being able to Bave the girl were
growing sinaH Indeed. Her own ut?
ter "homelessness, her nervous dread,
had affected him during the short sil?
ences between their questions and an?
swers to each other; she seemed to be
always listening, straining her ears
for any sound outside. The cry of a
street urchin made her start, a cart
passing quickly at the corner of the
street sent the blood to her forehead.
Her nerves, poor child, were alto-'
gether shaken.
Clifford looked at her in dismay.
Even the strong love which had stood
ivery test was apparently powerless
to give her more than momentary
comfort.
"My darling," he whispered, "let
me take you up to town to-night. I
will take you straight to your aunt's,
and in the shortest time possible I
will marry you. and take you out of
England altogether."
Nell drew back and stared at him.
"You don't understand," she said.
"This case is really coming on now.
The police don't disguise that they
know enough to go upon now. I have
the strongest reason, the very strong
{>st, for believing that they will come
for me to-day."
'To arrest you?" cried Clifford,
hoarsely. She began to tremble and
to look at him askance.
"No, not to arrest me," aud she
shuddered. Then a look of terror,
more acute than over, came into her
eyes. "Perhaps that ls it. Perhaps
that ls really what they mean to do,"
she whispered doubtfully. "They said
it was only my evidence they wanted,
bul?but-?"
She hesitated?stopped. Clifford's
heart was wrung. Surely no jury that
ever sat could convict this poor, help?
less, gentle girl of anything but un?
conscious crime. He would have
staked his life that she was as inno?
cent of these mysterious crimes in In?
tent as he was himself of them in?
deed.
"My darling!?my poor darling!?of
course they only waut your evidence."
But his own voice shook and his
pyes were dim. He tried to cheer her,
lo encourage her to say words which
he could hardly feel, but the girl
.carcely seemed to hear him. Sud?
denly, in the midst of his vain efforts
at consolation, she stood up.
"They are com.'." said she.
Clifford started up. He had heard
nothing. But Nell's patient ears
were keener than his. In another mo?
ment theare was a knock at the outer
tloor. And then a knock at the door
of the room. He looked round wild-.
ly, and, seizing her arm, would have
had her hide herself behind the little
sofa, but she smiled sadly and shook
her bead.
"Come in!" "she said.
Aud as the girl had foretold with
uncannily correct prophecy, a ser?
geant of police from Stroan, very
.ivll, very apologetic and humane,
presented himself.
"Very sorry, Miss, to have to in?
trude," said he. "But I must ask jon
lo come along with me as far as!
ptroau, just to tell tho magistrate]'
someniing that will help us on a blt."
"This is not an arrest?" said Clif?
ford, trying to hide his anxiety.
"Xo, sir."
But Nell's white face seemed to be?
tray the belief that lt was.
CHAPTER XX. _^
There was just one ray of conso?
lation for Clifford King in the misfor?
tune which had befallen Nell. She
seemed to him. in spite of the trem?
bling of her limbs and the pallor of
her face, to be more relieved than de?
pressed by the arrival of the police..
It was with perfect self-possession
that she turned to the sergeant and
said:
"May I speak to Mr. King alone be?
fore I go?"
__l'Certainly, Miss. Perhaps you would
like to walk as far as ueacn witn~Mr.
King, and we will have a cab walt?
ing there to take you on to Stroan."
This course was agreed upon, and
Nell and Clifford left the house to?
gether. They walked In perfect si?
lence until they had passed through
the unlovely back streejts of the town,
and had reached the contiguous vil?
lage of St. Mary's, vith its gray old
church on the high ground. They
stopped for a moment In the shadow
of the tall tower. Clifford looked at
the girl by his side, and was amazed
to see that the gloom which had huug
over her on his arrival had incited
away.
"Why, Nell," said he. with a puzzled
smile on his own face. "I told you
that you would soon be your own self
again, but I didn't guess how quickly
the transformation would take place."
Her face clouded a little, but the
sigh she gave was one of more relief
than pain.
, "Can you imagine what it would be
like," she asked, gravely, as they
turned and continued their walk down
the crooked village street, "to live for
months in perplexity aud dread of
fc-ou didn't quite know what? And
then to rind yourself groping your way
to a dreadful, shameful secret, which
was bound to bring misery and dis?
grace upon yourself and everybody
you cared about? Supposing that you
were forced to coufess every thing
forced to do it, mind?wouldn't lt be
a relief to you, even If you brought
upon yourself a dreadful punish
Clifford was silent. He was alarmed
by her words, Indicating a3 they did
that she was involved in the horrible
story; yet he did not wish to acquiesce
in the idea of her guilt, or even in the
notion of her having been a passive
agent in the tragedy.
Nell insisted, however, on getting
an answer from him.
"I think, darling," he then said,
very tenderly, "that you have been
troubling yourself a great deal moro
than you need have done. And that
you will find plenty of other people as
ready as I am to say that Nell Claris
would never merit a dreadful pun?
ishment, even ir she tried."
These words were not said merely
to satisfy her. He begnn to feel, as
she did, that the thrashing out of the
whole matter,, horrible as the process
must be, was better for her lu every
way than the suspense from which
she had been so long suffering. What?
ever her share iu the affair might
have been, it had certainly been a pas?
sive and an unwilling, if not arr alto?
gether unconscious one. His answer
seemed to content the girl, for she
walked on by his side without any
farther remark, while a more placid
expression began to appear lu her
wau face.
. It was almost in silence that they
went on walking briskly in the direc*
tion of the bay, which they reached
by the short way over the fields. A
cab was waiting, as the police ser?
geant had promised, on the road out?
side the village. As soon as Nell saw
it she stopped short and said: ?
"I was forgetting what I wanted to
say to you. I want you to go to
Shingle End. And I want you to tell
them there?to tell the Colonel? that
the police have come for me."
"To tell the Colonel?" echoed Clif?
ford, stupidly, struck with a remem?
brance of the vague suspicions he had
haU on his recent visit to that gentle
maa? nousc.
"Yes."
Ile wauled to ask her more ques?
tions. But she saw his intentions,and'
walked briskly on. A few paces
farther she was met by the police ser?
geant, who saluted her respectfully,
and held open the door of the cab.
Nell turned and gave her hand in si?
lence to Clifford . But as he pressed lt
for a brief moment in his, she again
looked up in his face with the flicker
of a smile on her lips and in her eyes.
"Surely," thought ne to himself,
"it is hope, and not despair, which I
see in her eyes!"
The cab door was shut, and Clifford
who had a long walk before him,
walked briskly past lt, in the direction
of the Stroan road. But before he had
gone many steps he heard the voice
of the police sergeant behind him.
Clifford stopped and the sergeant
overtook him.
"Might I ask, sir, whether it's to
Colonel Bostal's you're going?"
"Well, yes."
"Might I suggest, sir that yon
shouldn't say anything about Miss
Claris to the old gentleman and his
daughter for the present? The poor
lady and gentleman have been in a
fearful state of nervousness lately;
and if this news was to come on them
quite sudden, lt might bring on a
stroke, perhaps, or something of that
sort."
Clifford hesitated. He had promised
Nell to take her message, but, on the
other hand, he quite agreed with th<.
sergeant. He temporized.
"Well, I shall be as careful as I
_a_i, and I shan't be In any great
hurry."
rra he Continued.
BLUEJACKETSJN CHARGE
Escorting the Colombian Soldiers to the
Isthmus.
ADblTIONAL MARINES TO BE SENT.
Secretary of the Navy Sends Instructions to
Commander McLean?Any Transportation
of Troops Contravening the Provisions of
tbe Treaty With Colombia Must Not Be
Sanctioned.
Colon, Columbia (By Cable).?Two
trains, flying American flags, one
closely following the other, started for
Panama in the afternoon. In thc first
train was an armored car carrying a
quick-fire Colt gun and 25 bluejackets,
who are acting as an escort to a thou?
sand Colombian soldiers. The second
train carried a similar number of blue?
jackets, escorting soldiers' wives and
guarding a quantity of Colombian war
material, guns, ammunition, etc. No
answer has yet been received to Com?
mander McLean's communication to
General Iferrara. Thc British war
ship Retribution has just arrived at
Colon.
AN EMERGENCY FORCE.
Six Hundred Marin.s Will Be Gathered a{
Norfolk, Va.
Washington (Special). ? Secretary
Moody has finally decided to augment
the United States naval forces on the
isthmus by the addition of 600 marines,
if Commander McLean's advices indi?
cate that these are needed. He has
given orders to Commander Pilsbury,
of the United States steamer Prairie,
now at Boston, to proceed with his
ship to Norfolk. At that point 600
marines will be gathered, ready to take
ship when-Secretary Moody's advices
indicate thc necessity for their pres
ence on thc Isthmus. Norfolk is the
most available point for thc congrega?
tion of a marine force, as. in addition
to its Southern location it has excel?
lent camping grounds for marines.
The Panther should arrive at Colon
within a day or two witli 380 marine-;
aboard, so that, with the Prairie's men
and the marines on the Cincinnati, who
are already ashore at Colon, the United
States will have what is regarded as an
ample force to carry out its treaty ob
ligation of maintaining free traffic
across thc Isthmus.
Orders were also sent forward to
the San Francisco, now at Norfolk, to
coal and provision and proceed to San
Juan, Porto Rico, there to await any
emergency which may arise.
There is only one United States war?
ship now in Venezuelan waters?the
little gunboat Marietta?and the Mont?
gomery is due to arrive shortly at
Cape Haytien. Thc object of thc de?
partment in sending down the San
Francisco, it is stated, is to have a ves?
sel ready to meet a call for reinforce?
ment either in Venezuela. Hayti or the
Isthmus. The duty assigned to the
San Francisco should not be confused
with that given the gunboat Bancroft.
That vessel will probably not be able
to go in commission until October 1,
and will then also proceed to San Juan,
to bc station ship.
FIRE NH R PRESIDENT.
The Bands Played, and Cool Heads Averted
Disastrous Panic.
Cincinnati (Special).?Roosevelt Day
at the Cincinnati fall festival and the un?
usually successful ceremonies attending
thc President's visit here came near be?
ing marred by a panic that would have
caused great loss of life. Over 8000
persons were packed into thc Auditorium
when the President began speaking. At
thc same time thc adjoining exposition
halls were crowded with' hundreds of
people viewing thc exhibits, as they were
unable to gain admittance in the Music
Hall.
After tbe President had hern speaking
about 15 minutes there was a great com?
motion in Mechanical Hall, which ad?
joins Music Hall on the north. Sparks
from an electric wire had set a curtain
on fire and the fire department had been
called to the scene.
The police and attendants of the expo?
sition soon put out thc fire, but they had
much more trouble in controlling the
alarmed crowd. It was with great dif?
ficulty that Capt. J. B. Forakcr. son of
the Senator, and one of thc officers of
the day, headed off the firemen from
rushing into the building where tbe
President was delivering his address
Happily one of thc bands strnrk lip
and those who left thc auditorium were
supposed to be going o-it to st p thc
band rather than to head off a (ttnic,
Very few in the auditorium, where thc
President was speaking, knew a-yt'mg
about the incident, and Mr. Roosevelt
suffered only a slight interruption with*
out knowing at the time what caused it.
Will Restore Manchuria.
Pekin (By Cable).?The Russian
Minister here, Paul Les<;ar, announced
that Russia was determined to restore
Southern Manchuria to the Lian river
and th.e New-Chwang-Shan-IIai-Kwan
railroad to thc Chinese Government
on October 8. He explained that an
earlier date was impossible on account
of thc destruction of a bridge, which
had prevented thc withdrawal .of the
troops.
Henderson's Successor.
Marshalltown, Iowa (Special).?Af?
ter the conference of lcsders, C. C. Al
brook. an attorney of Fldorado. was
announced as a candidate to succeed
, Speaker David B. Henderson.
Broke Jail to See DyinR Mother.
Wheeling. W. Va. (Special).?Ed?
ward K.. Williams, convicted of thc
murder of a companion in a lower state
mining camp, broke out of jail, visited
his dying mother and then surrendered
himself to the authorities. Thc pris?
oner, whose exploit is a most remark?
able one. was ordered sent to the State
prison for twenty years and had been
sent to the "Hinton jail to await the
convenience of officers who were to
take him to Moimdsville.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
The United States cruiser Des
Moines was launched at the Fort River
Shipyards, at Quincy, Mass., Miss El?
sie Macombcr, of Des Moines, chris?
tening her, while Miss Clara N. Carl
bor, of Haverhill, Mass., cut the ropes
which started her down the ways.
Fifteen hundred factory operatives
employed by the American Iron and
Steel Manufacturing Company who
struck against the employment of ne?
groes returned to work.
The Moorhead Brothers' Company
of Pittsburg received the first con?
signment of a large order of muck
iron from Germany.
Dr. Walter Curry, a brother of for?
mer United States Minister Curry,
died while on a visit to friends in
Brandford, Conn.
Mrs. A. Stapcling Shoridon leaped
overboard from the steamer La Tou?
rable while the steamship was cn route
to New York.
The murder of Mrs. Annie Pulitzer,
whose nude body was found in the Mor?
ris Canal, has been cleared up, and the
police of New York claim she was mur?
dered by a man named Hooper Young
in a cheap tenement at 103 West Fifty
eighth street.
Peter Hermia, who shot and killed
Barney Kanter in llackensack, N. I.,
because thc latter refused to sell him
five dnts' worth of dog meat, was
hanged after a desperate struggle with
the sheriff's deputies.
The American Window-glass Com?
pany, the Federation ol Co-operat:v?
Manufacturers and the Window-glass
Workers' Assembly of Pittsburg have
effected an agreement as to the wage
scale.
Three train crews refused to handle
nonunion coal from the Reading Com?
pany's colliery at Shenandoah, ra. Sub?
sequently, under the guard of soldiers,
a train of 23 cars was started.
A collision on the Baltimore and Obit
Southwestern between a passenger and
a freight train caused thc death of 2 per?
sons, the serious injury of 2 and injuries
to 40 others.
Rev. John Stebbins Lee, first presi?
dent of St. Lawrence University, di"d
at his home, in Canton, N. Y.
Four persons were injured in 3
freight wreck on the Philadelphia and
"Reading at Sunbury. Pa.
Thc Theological Seminary of Prince?
ton University was formally opened ir
Miller Chapel.
Lafayette Gruff, of Gloucester, N. 1.
was executed for the murder of his wife
Charles F. Murphy was elected leadet
of Tammany Hall by a vote of 28 to 8
1 he cruiser Brooklyn will bc placed
out of commission at thc Brooklyn
Navy Yard and Rear Admiral Cogh?
lan will transfer his (lag to the Olym?
pia. The board of inquiry to deter?
mine who is to blame for the accident
is in executive session.
Officers were elected in Buffalo by
th United States Railway Mail Ser?
vice Mutual Benefit Association and
the National Association of Postal
Railway Clerks.
Carl Reichard, operator on the Alle?
gheny Valley Road at Ford City, Pa.,
shot and killed Charles Andrews, who
with two others, was trying to rob
the station.
Foreign.
The provisional government of
Hayti is taking vigorous steps to end
the civil war. Thc War Minister will
shortly attack the revolutionists at
P'iaisance. Thc ports at Gonaives and
St. Marc have been declared block?
aded.
President Castro, of Venezuela, hal
started for Tocuyito at tbe head of a
force 01 0000 men. willi 12 guns, to at?
tack thc revolutionary army, commanded
by General Mendoza.
Captain Sverdrup's explorations in th?
Arctic seem to show that the northcrr
limit in which it is possible for human
beings to exist in thc archipelago has
receded.
Dr. Murom von Schwarzenatein, Ger?
man cmbassador to China, has returned
to Berlin and states that thc situation in
China looks more encouraging.
Prince Vladimir Troubetzskoi of Rus?
sia, after drinking too heavily with a
woman friend, attempted to commit sui?
cide at Algiers.
The controversy in England over the
introduction of thc American golf ball
has reached Berlin and become a diplo?
matic question.
Eighty blue-jackets and two quick
firing guns were landed at Colon f'-om
tbe United States cruiser Cincinnati.
The Colombian insurgents were re?
ported to have appeared on the rail?
road line between Colon and Panama.
Commander .McLean, of the Cincin?
nati, sent instructions to insurgent
General Herrera that insurgent troops
would not be permitted to stop trains
over the Isthmus or board them, as
American marines were maintaining
the traffic from sea to sea.
The Arctic steamer Pram, with the
Swedish expedition, arrived at Nor?
way. Captain Sverdup reports that he
explored the districts south and west
of Ellesnicreland and hitherto un?
known sections of that region.
Max Nordau. vice ^resident of the
Congress of Zionists, says Secretary
Hay's circular on the Roumanian ques?
tion compels the European powers
which signed the Berlin Treaty to do
their duty.
The British government in its for?
mal note of acknowledgment indicates
approval of thc contents of Sc Votary
Hay's circular letter protesting against
thc inhuman treatment of Roumanian
Jews.
The defalcations of Edmund Jellinek,
an official of thc cashier's department
of the Vienna Laedcr-bank. have been
shown to amount to $1,150,000. He is
said to have committed suicide. #
Tnllio Murri, accused of murdering
his brother-in-law, Count Bon Martini,
at Bologna. Italy, was arrested at the'
frontier town of Ala, Austrian Tyrol.
Financial.
Upwards of 100 American tin mills
arc idle.
At San Francisco $250,000 Klondike
gold lias arrived.
Stockholders of thc Independent
Glass Company, of Pittsburg, voted to
go out of business.
Wabash is tipped for a very substan?
tial rise before the year ends.
The New York banks have lost to
the Subtreasury this week $1,958,000.
August earnings of the United States
Steel are said to amount to $12,500,000,
against $1.2,000,000 in July.
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Take it as one will, there ia some?
thing Impressive In the danger or
demise of royalty. We mortals have
builded up and exalted the worldly
fabric of our existence as high as we
can. We have constructed outposts
and redoubts and inner and outer
walls, and keep and sanctuary, and
some of us have placed high up and
over and above all a king.
And now there comes a time for the
glorification of this brave work, when
the king shall take his place upon his
throne, and his lords and vassals and
people throughout half the world shall
rejoice. There shall be great pomp
and gorgeousness, and ancient rite
and ceremonial, and revelry and feast?
ing.
In a magnificent old cathedral the
rich light shall shimmer and reflect
on Innumerable jewels, and on gar?
ments of cloth of gold and ermine,
and here shall be assemoled the pride
and pomp and chivalry of a great
nation to do honor and homage to
their sovereign lord.
Suddenly, in the midst of all the
gaudy preparation there comes an
unbidden guest, a guest that enters
the royal palace with the same mien
of authority that he does the poorest
hovel in the land. Vain nil the elah
orately constructed outpost.! and re?
doubts, and inner and outer walis
and keep and sanctuary Not al! the
armed force of all the world, not. all
its pride and pomp and chivalry can
hinder one jot the advance of th<?
intruder, writes Frederic V. Collin,
in the Washington Times. He passe
all the imposing barriers that stir
round the king, In ono disdainful ste'p-'
and lo! the sovereign lord jrifo^ is
about to ascend his throne amid the
obeisances of his nobles and the plan
dits of his people, lies stricken and
helpless, and envying, perhaps, the
humblest peasant who has health and
strength.
And so, however, reluctantly, we
acknowledge this grand work of hu?
man vanity, a "baseless fabric" And
we recall the lines of the greatest of
poets:
Wo are such stuff as dreams are made
of
And our little lives are rounded by a
deep.
Force is at best a fearful thing, even
in a righteous cause.?Schiller.
Col. John F. Mosby sent word to
.he remnant of his old guerrilla band,
who recently held their annual re?
union at Leesburg, Va., that the pres?
sure of public duty would prevent
him joining them. If Mosby's mem?
ory remains active, the recent death
of Col. Tlchener of the board of gen
eral appraisers at New York must
have reminded him of an occasion
when the prea.ure of private?ex?
tremely private and personal?duty
caused his absence from a place
where he was very much wanted. He
has sometimes mentioned it, in these
later years, as '$ e "closest call" he
ever bad in his life.
Tlchener. who was a union officer
In the civil war, had been sent out
one nifiht with a company in advance
of the army to skirmish and estab?
lish picket lines. Before he had gone
very far he stumbled upon three men
on horseback and cried: "Halt! Who
goes there?" Two of the men
wheeled instantly, galloped away and
HOW TO DRAW A CORK.
lt Can Be Done With Common Piece
of Sealing-wax.
If you want to amuse friends at a
picnic, or have left the corkscrew at
home, as usually happens, tell them
that you can draw a cork out of any
bottle without a corkscrew. Of course
they will laugh, but very soon it will
be your turn to smile.
Take a piece of sealing-wax and
hold one end of it over a lighted
match until it becomes soft; then let
some drops of the wax fall on the
cork in the bott ie. As scion as the
cork is covered with wax you must
press the piece which you hold in your
hand against the cork, and you must
hold it there until the wax is quite
dry. Then it will be easy for you to
draw out the cork by using the stick
of wax which adheres to lt, in the
same manner as you would use a
screw.
No matter how firmly fixed the cork
may ne, it will almost immediately
yield lo the pressure, you must,
escaped; the third hurried forward
throwing up his hands and scream?
ing: "I surrender! I surrender!"
Tlchener was much annoyed. He
could not shoot a man who had vo!
untarily made himself a prisoner of
war, and the direction taken by the
others was such that he should have
risked hitting his prisoner if he fired
upon the two fugitives; so he had ta
let. them go and bring his one prizi
into camp. The captive proved to
be a local preacher who knew the
country so well that the confederates
had pressed him Into service as |
guide, and he revealed the fact that
one of his companions was a confed
eritO officer and the other the gueril?
la Mosby, who, In the then state of
feeling within the union lines, would
undoubtedly have been given short
shrift and hanged.
Mosby afterward met Tlchener and
told him that he did the liveliest run?
ning that night of any time in his ad?
venturous career.
however, take care not to wrench the
stick of wax away from lt while you
are drawing it out. and you must also
see that the cork ia perfectly dry be?
fore you put any wax on it.
Edge of Pelee's Shower.
While the fiery tornado, passing
toward the south and west, widened
the sweep of its destructive power in
order to extend its devastations fur?
ther another remarkable phenome?
non came to stop it in its course. Two
strong atmosphere currents, laden
with rain, movlrg. one from the south?
east, the other from the north, fell of
a sudden upon the sides pf the fiery
spout, and, encircling it along a dis?
tinctly marked line, cooled it to such
a point that I have seen persons who,
finding themselves precisely upon the
line of demarcation, were struck on
one side by fiery missiles, while on
the other, and only a few feet away,
Kithing was falling but the rain of
mud, cinders and stones which de?
scended on the countryside every?
where.?From century for August,